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Ari Tervashonka ([email protected])

Dr. Ari J. Tervashonka is chairman of Holistic Science association and chairman of Finnish Methodology Society. He is a member of national committee of history of technology and science. His research focuses on theory history, intellectual history, philosophy of science and academic mentoring of students. Tervashonka’s methodological research focuses on qualitative methodology, systematic analysis and its variations.

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Research interests

  • Systematic analysis
  • Intellectual history and theory history
  • Philosophy of science
  • Methodology (mostly for complex qualitative problems and functionality-based interpretations)
  • Interdisciplinary projects and communications
  • Mentoring of academically excellent students
  • Systems theories

Arindam Ghosh ([email protected])

I am a doctoral researcher within the Biomedical Informatics group led by Vittorio Fortino at the Institute of Biomedicine. My current research focusses on using network biology and machine learning towards improving drug efficacy and safety. I am also a part of the in silico work package of the EDCMET project where I support towards development of tools for understanding the mechanism of actions of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs).

Arja Lyytinen ([email protected])

I am vice dean (education) in the Faculty of Health Sciences with the duties to develop education.

I am director of the Master’s degree programme in public health and the subject of my teaching is public health nutrition. Mostly I teach in the Master’s degree programme of public health (MPH) and I am responsible on the public health nutrition track. Further, I teach in the nutrition and health promotion programmes. I have been also working in international projects to develop public health teaching.
My research interest is how diet is associated with risk of chronic diseases. I have conducted studies exploring effects of dietary fat and fish on lipid and glucose metabolism as well as the role of diet in musculoskeletal diseases.

Armi Mustosmäki ([email protected])

Currently I am working as academy research fellow in my project “Smart women love money- Reconfigurations of femininity and motherhood in financialised welfare state” funded by the Finnish research council (2023-2027). This project focuses on the proliferation of financial self-help in social media that invites women to save and invest to the financial markets to fight economic gender inequality. The interest is to study how ideas and ideals on femininity, motherhood and intimate relations that are reconstructed and mediated through social media and how are these ideals received, lived, negotiated or resisted in lives of (non)investing women. The project is inspired by economic sociology, feminist media and cultural studies and critical social policy with the aim of understanding welfare state change.

Prior to joining UeF, I worked at the University of Jyväskylä in various research and teaching positions (Senior lecturer in Social and public policy, Lecturer in qualitative methods). My postdoctoral project “Complaining mothers: Affect, moral and politics of medicalisation” (2019-2023) was funded by Kone foundation and explored difficult and forbidden emotions of mothers, especially regretting motherhood as well as public response to ‘maternal complaint’ with tools provided by affect studies.

I have also participated in several projects and studied e.g. Nordic corporatism and gender equality policies, changing organisation of work in public and private sector organisations, lean management, and reconciliation of work and family. My PhD dissertation “How bright are the Nordic lights?” (2017) examined the question on the existence and persistence of the Nordic working life model by studying job quality trends in Nordic countries in a comparative perspective, drawing from institutional and labour process theories and large survey datasets. More information on publications and projects related to work life change you can find on my personal webpage.

Arto Koistinen ([email protected])

Deputy Head of Department is responsible for e.g., strategic development and follow-up related to research, postgraduate education, innovations and reserarch infrastructures.

My duties include actions related to impact through e.g., local and national ecosystems, and collaboration with industry and institutes.

Research

My expertise in the research include research on material technology, especially on material analysis, development of materials and methodology, and material interactions. We are one of the leading teams for microplastics research in Finland. I have lead several microplastics’ research projects (e.g. funded by the Academy of Finland).

Arto Salonen ([email protected])

I am a professor of sustainable well-being at the Department of Social Sciences, in the discipline of social pedagogy. My research focuses on social change for flourishing life in increasingly artificial-intelligence-driven society, where consumption habits and forms of social participation are evolving. My topic for the professor’s inaugural lecture was Planetary citizenship provides a scale for the sustainability transformation.

My theoretical work employs a planetary approach, informing the development of concepts of inclusion and advancing the theory of social pedagogy. Empirically, I focus on the practical implementation of social change. My investigations have addressed sustainable consumption, individuals’ experiences with self-driving cars, and the acceptability of novel food solutions. My approach is interdisciplinary and future-oriented.

I lead the SISU Consortium and Sustainability Transformations Doctoral Education Pilot in collaboration with ten universities. I am also a member of the Finnish Expert Panel for Sustainable Development, which brings science closer to society. In addition, I am an adjunct professor at the following universities:

– University of Helsinki (education),
– Finnish National Defense University (sustainable development), and
– University of Eastern Finland (research for ecosocial well-being).

Further information about my research themes and publications is available on my website.

Arto Urtti ([email protected])

Research work is focused on drug delivery and targeting. The research programme includes aspects of pharmacokinetics and modeling, drug formulation and nanotechnology .

Atte Eskelinen ([email protected])

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the fields of musculoskeletal diseases, osteoarthritis, biomechanics, and mechanobiology. My basic research focuses on experimental (explant culture/bioreactor) and computational modeling of cartilage degradation. As a translational research aspect, I am involved in the development of knee joint level mechanobiological models and preparation of clinical data collection from patients with painful osteoarthritis.

My research aims to build understanding of biomechanical and inflammatory mechanisms linked to osteoarthritis and chronic joint pain. The project is a part of an international consortium (MathKOA – The Center for Mathematical modeling of Knee OsteoArthritis, Aalborg University, Aalborg University Hospital, Lund University, UEF) with an overarching aim to develop personalized predictive models of osteoarthritis progression and pain to optimize treatment strategies for pain-free, musculoskeletal healthcare.

Atte von Wright ([email protected])

My teaching and research focuses on food product development, food toxicology, food hygiene and food law. My research is especially focused on using of lactic acid bacteria in food processes to enhance product shelf-life, safety and improve nutritional properties. I have participated in several EU research projects and also been a member of scientific panels and working groups of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

While I retired in 2016, I have continued to supervise doctoral students and been in an expert role in several food security projects implemented by the University of Eastern Finland with Central Asian partners, for example as the Academic Coordinator of a double-degree master’s programme ‘Green Biotechnology and Food Security’ implemented with the Kazakh National Agrarian University.

I was also involved in founding the current Kuopio Food Valley project network that brings together the University of Eastern Finland, Savonia University of Applied Sciences, the development company Savo Grow and food business in the region to develop the food sector

Aytac Yurukcu ([email protected])

Doctoral Researcher, working on recent research project:

“Imperial War, Collective Memories and National Identities in the Borderlands of Europe: Identity Formation among Peripheral Minorities during and after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78”.

KM-19-11076 Finnish Government Scholarship Pool, EDUFI, “First Encounter of Two Nations in Balkans in the History of Relations between Finland and Turkey; Finnish Soldiers and War Reports During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78”.

TM-21-11709 / Finnish Government Scholarship Pool, EDUFI, “War Propaganda and the Role of Media in Comparative Perspective: Analysing the Media Sources of the Russo-Turkish War 1877-78”.

My research interests include journalism, media, press, war correspondence, diaries and reminiscences late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Also my research area specialises in identity and nationalism, historical image studies, intellectual history, cultural history, mapping and cartography. Currently, I am a reviewer for International Journal of Cartography ICACI/IJC and I am in the Editorial Board of The World History Bulletin (2020/2022), an official publication of the World History Association.

 

I wish to thank the following teachers and professors, who often went against the grain and got into trouble for that and dedicated a lot of their time to my learning and academic development, far beyond what their formal duties required. In order of their appearance in my life: Mustafa Gezer (Secondary School “Aliço School Koyunyeri”, Edirne), Docent Bülent Atalay (Trakya University, Department of History, Edirne), Prof. Hüseyin Mevsim (Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History and Georgraphy, Ankara), Prof. Jeremy Smith (University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu), Docent Teuvo Laitila (University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu).